Farage remains the favourite to become our next Prime Minister – politicalbetting.com
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R is for Russia
Like the USA!
Given the current circumstances including Starmer’s age the value is on Labour candidates. Who that would be given neither Reeves nor Lammy have so far especially distinguished themselves I don’t know. Cooper might be value in a sudden vacancy. Streeting or Miliband in the slightly longer term.
Prediction the next election at the moment requires knowing what the world will look like in 4 years time and currently we haven't a clue what it will look like in 1 months time. But I suspect we will be watching the USA pull all its troops out of Eastern Europe (as that's what Trump is threatening to do if we keep supplying the Ukraine).
In the circumstances where the extremely unlikely event of a Reform election win looked possible, Starmer would be replaced with someone more voter-affable.
Cardinal Sins. It's a Tucci subject
Stanley Tucci would never have survived in the round the clock work schedule those actual Conclave cardinals are beholden to.
The production team on his Italian cooking show are beginning to complain about working with him.
His favourite diva-ish demand is that he really doesn't want to be on set after lunch.
Very Mediterranean of him.
Kemi Badenoch sounds like she's the reverse Tucci. Disgruntled aides are gossiping round the Westminster watering holes that she really doesn't like being asked to do much before lunch.
But I would avoid her because the Department she’s heading has become something of a political graveyard. Several very good reasons for that, none of which were her fault, or her predecessors’ (not even Gove).
But her actions so far seem designed to make things worse rather than better, which suggests either she’s not understood the problems or that she has shocking judgement. In neither case would I be backing her for promotion.
I think it's perfectly possible there's a hung parliament that ends up with Farage becoming PM.
There's also every chance he won't be PM. All options are on the table at the moment, but we do need to take the chance of Farage becoming PM seriously and he and Reform need to be taken head on by the other parties, IMO.
A lot will of course depend on how the economy performs between now and 2029 as well as all the other "bread and butter" issues like the NHS, Immigration, crime, etc.
The cruellest thing about Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s right
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-cruellest-thing-about-trump-vs-zelensky-trumps-right/
(The logical choice would be Blair, but I suspect logic might take a back seat there!)
In particular, the claim she makes about Putin sending in "so few troops" really does take the biscuit.
The UK government estimates Putin has lost more than 750,000 troops in Ukraine. That's around half of Russia's total fighting strength.
But yes, very few...
https://x.com/HarryYorke1/status/1892593052788605194
Time for the Tories to remember who they are and show a bit of courage in the national interest.
But most of all it assumes that the main problem is the unpopularity of the current leader of the Labour Party, whereas for the last decade it has been voter disillusionment with the whole centrist political establishment that has failed to deliver economic growth and decent public services, has tolerated record immigration and couldn't even implement the largest democratic vote in our history for more than three years. That disillusionment was briefly broken (or maybe harnessed) by Boris Johnson, until voters either voters realised he had overpromised or he was derailed by COVID or both according to ones views.
He gets thrown out of RefUK because its senior figures all want to have babies with Trump (especially the men);
Disillusioned, he realises Labour are not going to reverse Brexit and joins them.
Starmer makes him FS to oversee a rapprochement with his mates in E Europe and Turkey.
Starmer hit by bus.
Farage rides a wave of popular gratitude to No.10.
Where he is shat on at the lectern by the squadron of flying pigs.
They mostly wouldn't last five minutes on here. The brightest of them come to pb.com to grab ideas.
‘When the party is in government the Leader shall appoint all members of the cabinet in their capacity as Prime Minister.’
That could be interpreted in the way you do - or it could be said that this wording shows the role is separate and that they have to be separately appointed to that role (which is the legal position, of course).
I think ultimately it might depend on how popular Rayner or A N Other was at the time as to whether the cabinet backed her.
🔶 LDM: 48.5% (+2.0)
🌹 LAB: 23.0% (-18.3)
🌳 CON: 20.6% (+8.4)
➡️ RFM: 8.0% (New)
And the scenario you posit would require Reform to be the largest party - probably by quite some margin. At a time when, likely, Trump will be history
Supporting Putin, because he’s illiberal is as reprehensible and stupid as supporting him because he’s anti-Western.
One thing Corbyn did do that was helpful was clarify the rules on leadership elections, but this would have been better if properly clarified too.
But I would like to say two things in its favour:
Firstly, Bond's arriving at the hotel in Hong Kong is magnificent.
Secondly, Toby Whatsisname (Glenda Jackson's son) has an amazing sneer.
A certain man with a toothbrush moustache was nice to his secretaries. But that didn't make him a good person. Nero tolerated satirists mocking him, but that didn't make him a good emperor.
It's alarming to see so many be so soft on Putin, to the extent of blaming the nation invaded rather than the tyrant invading.
MorrisDancer has correctly quoted a previous post to comment on it.
Now I know something went wrong when the weasel appeared in the large Hadron Collider after which the world turned to shite but this was something I never expected
There's the opposite as well: such as hating everything someone does because of a singular virtue or characteristic. E.g. because they voted for the 'wrong' political party, or they are Jewish, or poor, or rich...
Britain is to offer European countries an “Australian-style” youth mobility scheme as part of Sir Keir Starmer’s reset with Brussels, The Times understands.
Under a plan to be tabled by British negotiators, tens of thousands of young EU workers and students would be able to come to the UK to live and work for two years, with the possibility of a one-year extension.
The reciprocal scheme would allow young Britons, aged 18-30, similar access to countries in the European Union.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/britain-to-offer-eu-youth-mobility-scheme-fh0dkh95w
The Beretta .25 is a lady’s gun and not a very nice lady at that.
The Ruger Magnum .44 is a real man’s gun
Paging Dr Freud.
https://x.com/themonologist/status/1892548888453603711?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
As with Churchill, you do not need to be a party leader to be Prime Minister.
I like the Madonna theme tune - she should have stuck to her lane.
Will the deputy be a candidate?
If yes, (a) Is it wise to have a PM distracted by fighting a leadership election and (b) is it fair to other candidates to face an incumbent PM with all the considerable advantage that would bring?
The electorate here would be the cabinet, not the party or even the PLP. And I am sure that any leadership ambitions of their own would play absolutely no part in their thinking on point B!
Frankly, I think the point is moot though.
Taking the previous minutes as read, I now have a definitive answer to the Jodrell Bank question.
The trunnion bearings that support the weight of the dish while allowing it to rotate around the horizontal axis were custom made for the job.
The ring gears used to spin the dish around the same axis were salvaged from battleships.
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-inquisitive-giant-1957-online
@Madonna
I thought this country was built by
Europeans, escaping living under the rule of a King, to establish a New World governed by the people.
Currently we have a president who calls Himself.
Our King
If this is a joke,
I'm not laughing
https://x.com/Madonna/status/1892742153261990189
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/20/nathan-gill-former-leader-reform-uk-wales
There are a sizeable group of people who profess to dislike being told what to do and what to think. They blame the thing whose name has evolved over time - political correctness, woke, BLM, the blob. Whatever you call it, there is definitely - they say - a push to make everyone think the same and they won't stand for it.
I say brainwashed because these same "you can't tell me what to think or what to say" angry people then all parrot the exact same fact-free FUD. FUD is fear, uncertainty & doubt. At times this is at least rooted in a basis of fact which is then heavily manipulated or openly warped. At other times its literal demonstrable lies.
These people are brainwashed. Gaslit. Lied to. Manipulated. Call it what you want. To make them angry so that they will behave in - and vote - in a certain way. They're right that there is a movement trying to push everyone to say and think the same. Its just that they are the targets and they are the people complying.
This *is* brainwashing. There's chunks of it on the left (c.f. trots now backing Putin because he's the enemy of the enemies of Corbyn), and chunks of it on the right where we have weaponised ignorance manipulated to provoke literal riots last summer.
I heard a podcast that stated that the 'turrets' (more likely, I guess, components thereof) were from one of the Sovetsky Soyuz battleships the Russians started but never completed.
It's hard to find firm evidence, but the following link has a piccie and the words "A rotating mechanism of the Pluton complex was reportedly fashioned out of submarine hulls and battleship turrets"
https://www.russianspaceweb.com/kik_nip16.html
Edit: and the original Jodrell Bank turned on bogies from a Castle Class. Allegedly...
https://x.com/MrTimDunn/status/1339214594129137664?
(That also states: "The telescope's motor system used gun turrets recycled from two navy battleships: HMS Revenge & HMS Royal Sovereign" )
So not keen on morning meetings. And that has been maliciously misinterpreted
Is this meaningfully different to the EU's unsubtle hints, or is "Australian-style" the equivalent of Jim Hacker's renaming the emulsified high fat offal tube the British Sausage?
The trot left and the Trump/Farage alt-right are marching in lockstep. They both hate each other for ideological reasons yet are proudly speaking the same FUD for ideological reasons.
Fascinating...
Specifically are ferrets called ferrets because they ferret, or, did the act of ferreting get named after the animal.
This bothers me and I fear I might take this question unanswered to the grave. Can PB help?
Do they given a reason ?
https://x.com/RAFBBMF/status/1892599068351660246
Reminds me of a lot of pearl clutching about lack of certainty when Boris went into hospital, when in fact it was all arranged quite simply with a classic fudge.
No I can’t be arsed to read it either
(I do wonder if they were made to Imperial or Metric? One of the first things the guys doing the A1 Tornado project did, was to convert all their detailed drawings from Imperial to Metric. The reason being that there are declining numbers of manufacturers/fabricators who will deal with Imperial, and everything was easier if everything was in Metric.)
What a surprise that Musk and the US have changed their tune
S is for Soviet
So if Farage was to become PM it would only be if he could get Badenoch's confidence and supply with Reform and the Tories combined having a majority
Some can admit it, and refute it matters, but many live in a delusion that they are actually in opposition to their purported foes, and no showing them proof otherwise matters.
I thought the majority of aircraft are still imperial
https://x.com/JamesTate121/status/1892722618920312895
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crknd1e86x4o
Just goes to show very difficult to tell mobsters and lawyers apart.....
You should write to Nature regarding the Dancer criterion.